Facebook defamation case leads to $500,000 settlement.

"Jones says she had to have a conversation with the 15-year-old students in her class to clear her name -- telling them she did not have an STD and does not sleep around." -Kashmir Hill, Forbes Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/03/30/bengals-cheerleader-who-sued-the-dirty-for-ruining-her-reputation-now-facing-reputation-ruining-charges/#7cfffb147814

While online defamation continues to grow, the law needs to protect people's reputations from those who may want to ruin it with their words.

My Solution

1. Require websites and social media sites to take down defamatory material when requested by the victim and have those sites be legally considered publishers.

2. When social networking sites host defamatory content, they should be held liablefor defamation of the content that they are hosting.

Feasibility?

My solutions are feasible, realistic and would help with the growing issue of online defamation.